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REVENUE SYSTEM
to overmeasurement on being petitioned, and on person-
ally ascertaining such to have occurred.
45. Q. Are collectors generally compete?it to superintend
personally the revenue affairs of the district ?
A. From the heat of the climate, and from the diffi-
culty of transacting business in a language which is
foreign to them, the collectors in general for the above
reasons, must stand in need of aid from others, whom
they employ as instruments in conducting the details.-
At the same time they have so little intercourse or
acquaintance with the native inhabitants, that they must
naturally depend chiefly on two or three persons who are
around them, in whom they generally place confidence,
and consequently these few who have no chance of bet-
tering their condition from the trifling salaries allowed
them, sometimes consult their own interests, rather than
those of the government or the people.
46. Q. Are the Collectors vested with sufficient power to
perform effectually the duties attached to their office, or do
they enjoy authority of an extent to be injurious to the
public 1
A. Their powers are amply sufficient. The judicial
authorities also are always required by the regulations of
government to afford them promptly every necessary
assistance in the discharge of their duties ; and many
collectors are even invested with the additional office and
powers of magistrates ; contrary to the judicious system
established by Lord Cornwalis, * and to the common
* By Sec. 2 of Reg. II. of 1793 all judicial powers were
transferred from the revenue courts to the civil courts ; but by
Reg. 4 of 1821 it was enacted that the offices of Collector and
Magistrate could be held by the same person ; and again by
Reg. V. of 1825, the legality of a union of the powers of Judge -
REVENUE SYSTEM
to overmeasurement on being petitioned, and on person-
ally ascertaining such to have occurred.
45. Q. Are collectors generally compete?it to superintend
personally the revenue affairs of the district ?
A. From the heat of the climate, and from the diffi-
culty of transacting business in a language which is
foreign to them, the collectors in general for the above
reasons, must stand in need of aid from others, whom
they employ as instruments in conducting the details.-
At the same time they have so little intercourse or
acquaintance with the native inhabitants, that they must
naturally depend chiefly on two or three persons who are
around them, in whom they generally place confidence,
and consequently these few who have no chance of bet-
tering their condition from the trifling salaries allowed
them, sometimes consult their own interests, rather than
those of the government or the people.
46. Q. Are the Collectors vested with sufficient power to
perform effectually the duties attached to their office, or do
they enjoy authority of an extent to be injurious to the
public 1
A. Their powers are amply sufficient. The judicial
authorities also are always required by the regulations of
government to afford them promptly every necessary
assistance in the discharge of their duties ; and many
collectors are even invested with the additional office and
powers of magistrates ; contrary to the judicious system
established by Lord Cornwalis, * and to the common
* By Sec. 2 of Reg. II. of 1793 all judicial powers were
transferred from the revenue courts to the civil courts ; but by
Reg. 4 of 1821 it was enacted that the offices of Collector and
Magistrate could be held by the same person ; and again by
Reg. V. of 1825, the legality of a union of the powers of Judge -